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E. J. SEGRELL.

SKIRT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1. 1914.

Patented July 27, 1915.

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Application filed October 1, 1914. Serial No. 864,435. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. :SEGRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in certain improvements in skirts of the type illustrated by my Letters Patent Nos. 891,868 and 903,326, wherein for the purpose of adjust ing a skirt to waists of different sizes the waist-band of the skirt has each side of the back center thereof means for altering its girth, this result being'in that case attained by forming a vertical lapel extending downwardly from the waist-band a suitable distance and detached at its sides from the body of the skirt and placing on the lapel two hooks or-the like, 'oneat each side of and in the waist-band part of the lapel, and on the waist-band itself each side of the lapel a series of eyes or thelike any one of which may be engaged by the corresponding hook. a 7

To simplify the construction of skirts of this class, increase their durability," make them fit to better advantage in respect both to appearance and comfort are the principal objects of the present invention, which will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved skirt; Fig. 2 an inside elevation of the upper back part of the skirt; Fig. 3 is a top plan view, on a. larger scale, of the back of the skirt; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on line ww of Fig. 2.

The skirt shown in the accompanying drawings comprises a body a made up, we cept as hereinafter indicated, in any desired way, and a waist-band b, which preferably, though not necessarily, consists of a strip of suitable stout material folded lengthwise, being then fitted over the upper edge of the body and stitched in place. For applying and removing the skirt it is provided with a placket 0, preferably at the left of the front center and with a hookand eye or other fastening device cl whose members are attached at opposite sides of the placket to the waist-band.

Adverting, now, to the novel features of the improved skirt and describing them in the preferred form shown in the said drawings, at the back center of the skirt body Specification of Letters Patent.

perfectly smooth or unfolded in the partthereof represented by the approximate width of the said boX-plait 2'. But the folds gg of the boX-plaits j j are formed after the waistband strip has been applied and stitched in place, in consequence of which said folds affect the waist-band as well. as

the skirt body. Likewise, before the Waistband strip is applied and stitched place two parallel lines of stitching 72 7c are run from the upper edge of the body downwardly a suitable distance close to each of the folds f-f and through the three thicknesses of material making up the box-plait 71 and reach boX-plait j, the same permanently preserving the folds f-f, as will be obvious; whereas after the waist-band strip has been applied and stitched in place a line of stitching Z is run from the upper edge of the waist-band downwardly a suitable distance close to and parallel with each fold g and through the two thicknesses thereof, preserving permanently the said folds gg. Across the lower ends of the lines of stitching 70 la and Z Z may be extended one or more, preferably two, lines of stitching 'm m. At suitable intervals to the right and left from the thus box-plaited back center of the skirt the waist-band is provided with a series of eyelets n. On the folds gg, on the side of each which faces away from the other (see Fig. 3), are placed the hooks 0, each adapted to engage in one of the eyelets of the corresponding series a. Other securing devices than hooks and eyes may obviously be employed. Thus constructed the skirt is adapted, as will be clear, to be adjusted to different waist-measures accomplished by shifting either or both of the hooks 0 to one or the other of the eyes of the corresponding series. This, moreover, without formation of any openings whatever that is incident to the part of the skirt directly concerned in the adjustment thereof, which is anelement of considerable importance in that it saves the manufacturer extra work in finishing the skirt and insures against such opening exposing the undergarment of the wearer.

What 1 term a shield is formed by that part of the back of the skirt which extends from the upper edge of the waistband to and includingthe stitching on m and from one to the other fold 9; it is, in effect, a broad or major box-plait which is composed (as herein illustrated, for example) of the minor box-plaits i and j and whose folds g are preserved well-defined and trim by the stitching Z Z. When the skirt is adjusted to the wearer, this shield serves to cover the shiftable folds 7) p, giving a neat appearance to the adjusting back portion of the skirt. Moreover, while it rests perfectly fiat over the flat part of the wearers back midway between and in the horizontal line of the hips, the skirt can below the shield adjust itself to the wearers form at the buttocks due to the fullness derived from the continuation z" of the boxplait 2', the folds of which (2") are left unstitched, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A'skirt having at the back and extending downwardly from the upper edge thereof toward but not below the buttocks part thereof two spaced plaits and between said other from said upper edge downwardly to but free below said buttocks part, and means to releasably attach the first two plaits to the adjacent material of the skirt in each instance at a series of laterally extending points.

2. A skirt including a skirt-bodyand a waist-band stitched to said body and said skirt having at the back center a box-plait extending from the upper edge of said body downwardly below the buttocks part therea of and having its adj oining'folds secured in fixed relation to each other above but free below said buttocks part, the waistband extending straight or unfolded across the boxplait, said skirt also having'its body and waist-band formed with other plaits one each side of the box-plait and extending downwardly toward but not beyond said buttocks part, and means to releasably attach the latter two plaits to the adjacent 'material of the skirt in each instance at a series of laterally extending points.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses,

EDWARD J. SEGRELL. Witnesses: JOHN W. STEWARD,

,VVM. D. BELL.

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